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"At one of the 50 work stations, students can create an electronic portfolio or enhance a literature assignment with images of artifacts or sound files," Kern-Simirenko says. "IBM laptop computers, digital cameras and video cameras will also be available for checkout. A student preparing a grant proposal could incorporate digital video. A class could use such video for a service learning project, which sends classes into the community to solve problems."

While other universities have digital media resources, what makes the Purdue collaboratory unusual is the extensive partnership between the libraries and computing services, says John P. Campbell, associate vice president of IT Instructional Computing Services.

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